Aug 3, 2026 | Home Electrification, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy
Norway installs roughly fourteen times more heat pumps per household than Britain does. Not because Norwegians care more about the climate, and not because Oslo writes bigger cheques. It is because in Norway a kilowatt-hour of electricity costs little more than a...
Aug 2, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Solar
The largest study of agrivoltaics yet assembled — 320 experiments at 111 solar farms across 20 countries — found that of 264 crop-yield trials under panels, 59.8% produced lower yields than open field. Just 12.9% produced higher ones. Agrivoltaics is usually sold on...
Aug 2, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Solar
Coal supplied 49.7% of China’s electricity in the first half of 2026 — the first half-year on record below half. China’s National Energy Administration announced the figure on 30 July, alongside renewables at 41.2% and coal generation of 2.5 trillion kWh....
Aug 2, 2026 | Electric Vehicles, Policy & Regulations, Trucks
The European Union registered 4,991 battery-electric heavy trucks in all of 2025. China registered 231,100 new-energy heavy trucks — a category that is about 97% battery-electric, the remainder fuel cell. In the first half of 2026 China added another 126,200, up 85%...
Aug 2, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Solar
Solar supplied 25% of EU electricity in June 2026 — 52 TWh, the largest single source, ahead of nuclear, gas, wind, hydro and coal. In the same year, European solar farms captured the lowest share of the wholesale price ever recorded: an average of 38% in spring, down...
Aug 1, 2026 | Home Electrification, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy
The share of new Californian home solar installations that came with a battery attached rose from 14% in 2023 to 57% in 2024, according to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Nothing about batteries changed in that window. What changed was that California stopped...
